Bioterrorism and Nuclear Terrorism

Nuclear, biological and cyberterrorism will receive priority attention under Obama. He made combating the potential of nuclear terrorism part of his campaign platform. A few months before the election, he charged the Bush administration with failing to adequately confront nuclear terrorism. A report issued immediately following by the election, by Harvard's Belfer Center and sponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, urged the president in dramatic terms to take immediate steps to forestall the chances of a nuclear weapon falling into terrorist hands. Obama leveled similar charges against Bush regarding bioterrorism and nuclear terrorism.